THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936..
Just arrived!
A New Shipment
of:
Fashionable Designs Silk & Cotton Prints
for
SPRING
Inspection Respectfully
Solicited.
(Silk Dept.,
1st flr.i
China Emporium
LTD.
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for
$25,000
in 1936 to continue its work for
sick and destitute children,
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie Co.,
P. & O. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.
MAKE A POINT
OF VISITING
GORDON'S
SHOE SALE
SOAP KING WEDS U.S.
ACTRESS
Mrs. R. B. Foster, European director of à firm of beauty product makers, who searched the whole of Britain and Europe three years ago for the most beautiful girl is married. His bride is Miss Barbara New. berry, American dancer in the recent Hippo-
drome show "Love Laughs.".
The tall, dark, soap king-who is reputed to be one of the best-looking men in commerce- married Miss Newberry at Coldwater, Michigan. She has announced her retirement front the slage,
They plan to settle down in London after a honeymoon in Egypt.
Mr. Foster is a golfer as well as a beauty expert. He has tied with King Edward VIII for the cap- tain's prize of the Sunningdale Golf Club. He has beaten the King og another, course.
Beauty Quest
It was in 19:12 that he set out on his tour to find the "beautiful girl" As director of the Colgate and Palmolive concern he was looking for examples of the "keep that schoolgirl complexion” 'stagan.
of
la choice Toll on the girls of Mottram, Cheshire. He sald thom: "I have never seen auch beauty in my life."
His bride was formerly married to Eddio Foy, junior, who appeared with Ramon Navarro in "Royal Exchange." She obtained a divorce three years ago.
SO A MONK IS BURIED
No Mourning No, Flowers- No Coffin
Father Malachy Dunne, the monk who died suddenly at the Monastery of St. Bernard at Charnwood Forest, Leicester- shire, was buried in the shadow of the abbey cloisters which he had never left for thirty-three years.
Seventy monks' attended the funeral. The ceremony W36 carried. out with all the mediaeval rites of the Cistercian Order.
There was no mourn- ing, there were no flowers, there was no coffin.
Death In The Air
A MODERN REBECCA
A little girl from Libyn, who is fatching water,
not from the well but from a modern water-conduit.
Mr.. Baldwin Once In The Dock
The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, WOS once in the dlock of a police court.
He mentioned this when he mude a presentation to Mr. Stanley Hemingway, who re- tired from the office of magis- trates clerk to the Stourport (Wores) Bench.
He told Mr. flemingway, "I have been in the dock luring the time of your father..
"I was in the time when muzzling orders were about. i had a dog which walked out to get the early morning air, sat on the grass and tore its muzzle off.
"Inspector Walker saw that it was Insufficiently clad,' and it cost me ten shillings.
SKY TRAVEL SAFER
LAST YEAR
Fatal Accidents. Deaths in
them.
1934 1936
20
215
31
44
London, Jan. 28.
THEY CALL IT
A WISDOM
TOOTH
YET IT IS KNOWN AS A CAUSE OF INSANITY
THE CURE- JUST A MATTER FOR THE DENTIST THE latest people to take an interest in your teeth are-the Lunacy Board of Control.
Mental experts at Birmingham University
wisdom found that teeth are in many cases the cause of insanity.
They extracted the wisdom teeth of forty-eight patients and now thirty-seven of these people have returned home cured.
The other cases are making pro. gress, too.
Quick Cure
A
nineteen-year-old girl had been, for five years. She had insomnia, and for ten months before being admitted to the men- tal hospital had been unable to work.
Once #ho tried suicide.
to commit
Her two lower wisdom teeth were found to be badly infected. They were taken dut,
The second night following the extraction she slept without a sedative for the first time for eight months.
She received no other treatment.. The pains in her head dis appeared, she became cheerful und "was discharged from the hospital within one month of the operation. She is back at work.
Here is another case, A man of thirty-three was admitted to the
institution.
Both in the Air Force and in civil flying the accident mortality in 1935, estimated in relation to the greatly increased aggregate flying time and flying distance, was less than in previous years. In
He was depressed our expanding Air Force, the figures for the past two years are; and suffered from delusions.
these accidents
Two Boys Of 17 there Was one glider fatality. It is not yet, pos-tracted all his teeth, which were The institution's dentist ex- sible to give even approximate figures for the amount
bad. He is now back at work, of civil flying. On all sides, however,
cured.
Another case was that of a It is estimated on a conservative there. Have boon considerable in-
schoolboy basis that Air Force
creases in regular air transport, whose henith gave way just before
seventeen-year-old
flew an aggregate
exceeding while there has been an accelera he was about to take his matrica- 60,000,000 miles in 1935. In noted increase in the
number of ation examination. Air Force In the world is the civil machines registered. Through average amount of flying per the years the causes of accidents machine to great.
machines
Ho became worried, suffered vary scarcely at all. The falllbifrom insomnia, and was ill when lity of the human factor is still admitted to the institution.
Hia lower wisdom, teeth were In civil flying accidents in Great responsible for more than 95 per Britain and to British air cent, and it is often said in fly pressing against other teeth and liners on the air routes abroad ing, circles that most of the accl-could not come through the gum. the figures are:--
dents would be avoided if all pilots They were extracted. were of the long-experience con-
He is now back at home, plays Fatal Accidents. Lives Last tinuous-duty class. Steadily, if
tennis and golf, and studies alowly, improvement is taking
shorhand and typewriting. place. And there are
When a factory workor, aged curious 48 changes, as for example the almost seventeen, was admitted to the complete disappearance of the institution he could not talk, was Matalities at air circus displays, planting of that dread by realish-confused.
parachute fear of lightning and the sup-depressed, and his mind was and two successful parachute tion of the danger of ice forma-
Wisdom teeth again. They ascapes. In one accident, that of tion en wings and propellers, were taken out, and the boy is the City of Khartoum, twelve danger now being successfully back at work, happier and lives were lost. In
addition to fought.
1934
1935
There
in thorn,
24
21
43
were two
healthier than ever..
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
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150
1 These types of ships have always a fourth on board (5, hyphen 7). 9 How conspicuous a foreigner is
in the little street!
10 This might describe a huggis,
but you'll say it's nonsensel 11 Doesn't know when she gets the
ware and 12 she's
d'oeuvre.
rendy for the hora
13 Such screams only carry a short
distance.
14 The marbles in Bloomsbury
don't come from here,
16 nor is this suitable attire for
topers.
18 Sharper.
20 The Russian port for songs. 22 Make of enri 21 Measures.
27 Is willing to compromise., 20 Slow in time.
30 If she is, she may not powder, but she certainly paints, 31 Send Leg (anng.).
32 You must take a drop, but, it'a
quite wrong!
31 You can't bank on the aged in
habitant of this famous street being able to.
DOWN
2 Makes equal shares, having
about fifty,
The Spanish lady who studies in France.
4 In return,
6 African hunting expedition, 8 You'll always find a 'noblenuan
in good time.
Avoiding colds
means taking-
EVANS
ANTISEPTIC THROAT MADE
Pastilles
IN ENGLAND
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE
Aenpuncture. Moxocavala and Bana Bertiog fokler of Japasme and Hongkong Govern- asent Livesen. Oorm fipraiped Achhu und Trata. Becommended for many years by Local Hospitals and Doctors.
4, Wyndham Street, (let floor),
Tel. 26051.
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7 Describes the night the Z]†-
pelins fixed,
8 The house in which to keep a
party?
9 Epithet for lowly people und sinted fare two words, D, 7). 14 Can you guess this? Try. 15 Found In packing-cases une
gloves.
17 Thin sock doesn't need washing. 19 The vessel to take for a journey. 21 Mountain.
23 Shorten this, though already
short to sturt with,
26 U.S. territory, though there's a
query.
26 Render cars useless. 28 Sunny.
20 French lown.
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TH RAJAH'S DUOS! I CAN'T KEEP IT! THE OL
RAJAH MUSTA MADE A MISTAKE
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· PARDON - ER-UH-I BE- LIEVE YA MADE AN ERROR IN THI TẠP VÀ GIMME
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